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(account deleted)…not sure how I feel about this one.
I'm gonna no vote for now
Actually, I think I shall tentatively upvote this. The sheer simplicity of the article itself is kinda… meh, but for some inexplicable reason, it's kinda funny, which is also what I think the intention of the author was.
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Thanks to lurkd, decibelle, rume, Anax, Rando, dexa, and any others I missed who looked at this. I appreciate it.
But yeah, here's Mr. Fish. I hope you like it!
Suggestion: you might want to give the full name of Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting, for people who haven't heard of it before.
Honestly not a fan. Its a guy with a fish head. Great. What else? It feels a lot like trying to pass off a fairly bare-bones, uninteresting, and not particularly well-written article by slapping on a Wondertainment tag.
You're right. It's painfully bare bones and uninteresting and that's the point. I think that's what is charming about it. It's just a thing that exists and it doesn't care what anyone else thinks. It's a dead flat simplicity that just hits a couple of notes of comedy and that's all.
And I guess that works for some people, but I guess I just really can't appreciate a "It's Supposed To Be Bad!" mainlist article. It just isn't doing enough for me.
Well, everybody says it's stuff like meta-commentary on the usual spectacularly of SCPs or meant to be simple as the defining characteristic given to all of the misters or just not a very good SCP. But…I think the fact that you'd expect Wondertainment to do something more doesn't make it a let-down, or a play on the unexpected as the author's or Wondertainment's joke. I think it indicates that there's something the Foundation isn't seeing. It really is suspicious that Wondertainment would make such a mundane toy. I think the point to all of it is that this guy's claim to be nothing more than a man with a fish head is deliberately fishy, and not to be taken as all there is to him.
Or I'm just looking for something that just isn't going to be there. One of those.
Made me actually laugh a bit, which is very rare for a SCP for me. That being said, I see this more as a Joke SCP, rather than a mainlist one…(Maybe my sense of humour is just very odd), but whatever, +1
Although I can't help but feel that this article is getting upvotes just because the author is a staff member, whereas if someone who joined the site 2 months ago wrote the same thing, it probably won't get as much praise. But that might just be me.(By that, I don't mean I upvoted cause the author was djkaktus, I actually enjoyed it, but rather others in general)
Eh, it might well be true that it's easier for well established members to get upvotes, but it's impossible to tell for sure.
Having heard of the person writing it probably acts as a subliminal vote of confidence (is that right? I'm tired) as your brain goes "aha, I know this person writes good stuff, so this is probably going to be good stuff". That said, whilst it might colour your opinion going in, it's less likely to affect your overall opinion once you've read it.
FWIW, I don't look at the History or the Discussion before I vote.
Although I can't help but feel that this article is getting upvotes just because the author is a staff member
This is a tiresome conversation at the best of times. But when you have another Little Mister article that was posted on the same day, which is written in largely the same spirit, and it's posted by a non-staff member and receiving more positive votes, this becomes straight-up ridiculous. In addition, a large number of people are coming in to explain their upvotes, which have nothing to do with "a staff member wrote this."
I love this.
It feels like a play on how SCPs are normally written. With so many SCPs you've got something that appears to do one thing, but then it turns out to do another thing too. So the Foundation must have got used to this and when they're confronted with something this simple, they can't quite buy it
I retract my opinion for restatement at a later date.
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